Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus denounced anti-Semitism and xenophobia in his annual state of the nation address to the nation’s Parliament. In his April 19 address, Adamkus also urged the legislators to take action against the newly elected mayor of the city of Kaunas, Vytautas Sustauskas, who recently praised two men believed to be Nazi collaborators as “national heroes.”
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